madder family
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1. widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | asterid dicot family, |
definition | : | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | madderwort, rubiaceous plant, |
definition | : | any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus rubia, rubia, |
definition | : | type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus chinchona, genus cinchona, |
definition | : | large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | galium, genus galium, |
definition | : | annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus gardenia, |
definition | : | large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus genipa, |
definition | : | tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus hamelia, |
definition | : | evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus nauclea, nauclea, |
definition | : | small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus pinckneya, pinckneya, |
definition | : | small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America (noun.plant) |
member holonym | : | genus vangueria, vangueria, |
definition | : | tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | order rubiales, rubiales, |
definition | : | an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary (noun.plant) |
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